Now I'm not saying they are bad (quite a few range from good to great), but most play it relatively safe. It's on life support thanks to said fangames. As far as I'm concerned, Capcom took every easy golden opportunity in the past.Ī few of you know my stance on the following, but I'll repeat anyway: Fangames don't count as opportunities! Megaman isn't alive right now. In addition, a lot of the subseries have been concluded or milked endlessly. HOWEVER! The Megaman franchise has reinvented itself a lot of times and exhausted a lot of design space. Logically, Megaman should have died more than a decade ago! Most franchises don't survive that long! Megaman did. Just go look at the sprite section here, and behold the sheer number of games in the franchise. We're not getting an official release and even spiritual successors fail. After all these years, I'm thinking that's our only option left. Some wonder why Capcom isn't properly bringing Megaman back. The discontent leads to people rather violently disagreeing, which in almost every case is pointless at best and destructive at worst. I think we all know what this problem is: A lack of groundbreaking official releases for several years. Still, this is important enough that I will get this discussion on the forums as well. I talked about it during one of my streams and subsequently brought it up on chat. I've been wondering about this for a fair bit longer than today, though I did stress myself into a corner. Until then, please bear with me while I find the time to get my points straighter. I am aware of this and intend to rectify that at the next opportunity. i planned to make a whole art style based on this at one point, but i don't remember making any more than three sprites for it.Īs of right now I haven't made an optimal case. i tried not to put too much detail in it, since MM1 had simpler sprites.Īnd finally, here's some random girl i drew up when i was bored. Here's my try at an 8-bit oilman, with the scarf covering his mouth like in the archie comics. i find these a little squished together in a few aspects. i was looking at his mm4 sprites often while drawing this, so you might spot a lot of similarities between mine and capcom's :vįire man and cut man, both in a 16-bit ish style - not exactly wily wars, though. I tend to shift between styles a lot, though i'm most familiar with NES-like sprites, 'specially megaman's art style. Whenever i feel like it, i'll post any sprites i have made at one point or another. and so i decided to make a sprite thread.

Megaman zero style x sprite sheet